drug abuse

Elvis

Drug addiction killed Elvis, not his greedy manager

‘Colonel’ Tom Parker may have struck a hard bargain to fund his compulsive gambling habit, but his devotion to Presley was total, says Peter Guralnick

Harry Mount

How I inadvertently roofied my son

‘Funnily enough, it’s quite a nice feeling,’ he said

Toby Young

Is alcohol worse than cocaine?

Our paper looked at twenty different drugs using different categories of harm which were weighted to reflect their importance

David Nutt

Why Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht

Rather than any principled position, the pardon was more likely meant to appease the crypto-libertarians who rallied behind him

Niko Vorobyov

Policy

A shining light in San Francisco

In California, it’s incredibly difficult to run abstinence-only drug treatment centers. Some are trying to change that

Leighton Woodhouse